​Lenovo has unveiled a new ThinkStation model, the P320 Tiny, based on a Kaby Lake / Q270 platform with NVIDIA's Quadro P600 GPU. The unique aspect is the dimensions - At 1.4" x 7.1" x 7.2" (1L in volume), it is one of the smallest systems we have see that includes a discrete GPU. In order to achieve this compact size, the 135W power adapter is external to the system.

The P320 Tiny supports Kaby Lake CPUs with TDP of up to 35W (such as the Intel Core i7-7700T). NVIDIA's Quadro P600 is a GP107-based GPU with a 40W TDP. The system comes with two DDR4 SODIMM slots and two M.2 NVMe SSD slots. There is a rich variety of I/O ports - audio jacks in the front, a total of six USB 3.0 ports spread across the front and the rear, a RJ-45 GbE port, and six display outputs (4x mini-DP + 2x DP). Thanks to the Quadro GPU, the P320 Tiny is able to come with ISV certifications for various applications such as AutoCAD etc.

The board used in the system seems to be a custom one - it is larger than a mini-STX board, but, smaller than an ITX one. It is perfect for space-constrained setups, and comes with extensibility options such as add-ons for extra USB ports and a COM port, or, for an optical drive, as shown in the gallery below.

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Entry workstation. It is an ENTRY workstation because it is certified to run specific (primarily single-threaded) workstation applications. ECC memory, while recommended, is not mandatory, nor is it even the majority share of memory in the entry space. Reply

It depends on what you mean by workstation.If by workstation you mean a station where you do work (office, school, retail, etc) then this is a perfectly applicable device.If by workstation you mean a work-horse server being used as an end-user device, then no, this is not for you. It is a glorified laptop meant to stay in one place. You aren't going to be running solid works or other high compute programs on this thing.... they couldn't do it even if you wanted them to. But such workstations are not going to be so tiny either.Reply

So, I am no fan of Lenovo. Outside of a few high-end laptops I find most of their products to be disappointing.That said, the school district I work for bought the previous gen of these mini-desktops last year and they worked out rather well. They are cute, small, quiet, and ours (i5 with SSDs) were nice and quick. Very happy and would purchase again. But the best part is that they don't seem to compromise on port selection like Intel NUC devices do. Where our NUC devices have 3-4 USB ports and 2 video outs, these have 6-8 USB, 3 video out options, audio jack, ethernet, wifi (w/ antenna), etc. I would still use a NUC for my wife's next PC. But in a school or business where a device is more likely to be thrown in different environments and use cases over it's life as programs change I would absolutely pick something like these again to keep options more open.Reply